| Course Title: Topics: 'Natural Language Processing' |
| Start Date: 09/04/2019 End Date: 12/17/2019 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2019 |
| Description: This course provides an introduction to natural language processing, the discipline of enabling computers to process and understand human language. We will learn fundamental techniques for automated text and speech analysis and understanding, with insights from linguistics. Students will get hands-on practice implementing computational algorithms, reading scholarly research articles and will design and carry out an independent final project. |
| Distribution(s): II - Math & Sciences , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     | Credits:4.00     |
| Faculty         | Phone         | Email address         |
| Heather Pon-Barry   |           | ponbarry@mtholyoke.edu   |
| Meeting Dates         | Method         | Meeting days         | Meeting times         | Building name         | Room     | Frequency     |
| 09/04/2019 - 12/17/2019   | Lecture   | Monday and Wednesday   | 01:30PM - 02:45PM   | KNDD - Kendade   | 203   | Weekly |
| 09/04/2019 - 12/17/2019   | Fourth Hour of Class   | Friday   | 01:30PM - 02:20PM   | KNDD - Kendade   | 203   | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses         | ||
| Prereq: COMSC-225, MATH-232, and a Calculus course (MATH-101, MATH-102, or MATH-203). | Take previously   | Required   |
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| Course Tags         | ||
| NXDTA0001   | NXDTA: Nexus in Data Analytics and Society   | This course is approved for the Data Analytics   |
| Cross-listed Sections         |
| None   |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open     | Capacity: 18     | Enrollment: 14     | Available: 4     | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List         | Required         | Publisher Full Price         |
| To be determined. |           |           |
| Additional Book Comments         |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class.   |